Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese" O'Neill. At this play tender members of the audience will do well to plug their ears with cotton. Toward the end of the second act, the muscular "Chinese" O'Neill, soldier of fortune extraordinary, finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy...
...royal palace at Kabul, Padishah Habibullah, as the muscular Bacha Sakao now calls himself, opened no boxes, neither tugged nor grunted. He, debonair, wears tight kid gloves to show his gentility, brandishes two loaded rifles to show his dexterity, wears plentiful ammunition against emergencies, rules most of Afghanistan...
...alcohol in eau de Cologne is applied to an aching head, the alcohol evaporates rapidly, uses up the heat of the body and cools the fevered brow. When alcohol in a liniment is rubbed into the skin it dilates the blood vessels and relieves the twinges of lumbago, neuritis, "muscular rheumatism." Anhydrous alcohol (alcohol with all but 0.1% of its water removed) makes gasoline more potent, but at present gasoline is cheaper than alcohol and industrial alcohol is not much used for motor fuel in this country. In Germany, however (where cheap gasoline is not so readily available), many...
Last week there strode into the flat white Department of Interior building in Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
Norman Bel Geddes is short, with a muscular chunkiness. His sandy, habitually tousled hair and careless attire indicate no esthetic pose. They suggest the informality of a summer camper, or a man tinkering in a workshop. He was born in Adrian, Mich., in the '90s, and christened Norman Geddes...